Twisted (2004)
Average Rating: 2.9/10
Reviews Counted: 135
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 133
An implausible, overheated potboiler that squanders a stellar cast, Twisted is a clichéd, risible whodunit.
Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 39
An implausible, overheated potboiler that squanders a stellar cast, Twisted is a clichéd, risible whodunit.
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Philip Kaufman directs the detective thriller Twisted (originally to be titled The Blackout Murders), with a script by up-and-coming filmmaker Sarah Thorp. Ashley Judd plays troubled police detective Jessica Shepard, who works under the jurisdiction of the man who raised her as his daughter, police Commissioner Mills (Samuel L. Jackson). While investigating a serial murder case, Jessica -- who is has a proclivity for dangerous, drunken one-night-stands -- discovers that all of the victims are
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Ashley Judd
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Samuel L. Jackson
Commissioner John Mills -
Andy Garcia
Mike Delmarco -
David Strathairn
Dr. Melvin Frank -
Russell Wong
Lieutenant Tong -
Camryn Manheim
Lisa -
Mark Pellegrino
Jimmy Schmidt -
Titus Welliver
Dale Becker -
D.W. Moffett
Ray Porter -
Richard T. Jones
Wilson Jefferson -
Leland Orser
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This thriller seems most interested in lingering over battered and bloodied male faces.
Top CriticSarah Thorpe's screenplay is a compendium of by-the-book clichés; Kaufman's direction leaves the material stranded in a limbo between po-faced and trashy; Judd's approximation of drunkenness is worrying to behold.
Top CriticThe outdated, cliche-riddled direction is so inept and indifferent that it's hard to believe Twisted was lensed by the same Philip Kaufman who made The Right Stuff.
A suspense thriller without thrills or suspense.
Judd is let down by Twisted because tearful, confused victim doesn't come naturally to her; she's not fun to watch suffer if you can't see her calculating the payback.
This movie plays like they were reading [Roger Ebert's] little movie glossary and they took every cliche in there.
Numbingly predictable, inept, and boring.
At least the performances are solid.
Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia and David Strathairn all are wasted.
Overcooked dialogue, some wildly implausible story devices, and a dearth of remotely likable characters, and Twisted is a crime story that just doesn't pay.
Twisted is so bad I'm embarrassed to have seen it and therefore am a bit ashamed to write even an unkind review.
Just like nearly all of Judd's past entries in the genre, this film isn't great, it's just average.
The plot turns are increasingly preposterous, as are the metaphors.
Judd, Jackson and Garcia's work is pedestrian at best. But they did accept this script.
I didn't go to sleep and only looked at my watch a couple of times, so I guess it wasn't terrible.
Twisted is a thriller only a misogynist could love.
Director Philip Kaufman's commentary provides lots of detail about the storyline (a bit too much, perhaps), plus plenty of observations on the filmmaking process.
Remember kids, alcohol is bad, mmm-kay?
The movie may dole out a few guilty pleasures, but you won't believe a word of it.
Una de esas película que sin el cast que tiene pasaría sin pena ni gloria al olvido.
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